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Household Counts Canadian Households and Families in 1901 Peter Baskerville, Eric W. Sager

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The Canadian census taken in 1901 has surprising things to say about the family as a social grouping and cultural construct at the turn of the twentieth century. Although the nuclear-family household was the most frequent type of household, family was not a singular form or structure at all; rather,...

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Online Access: Full Text (via De Gruyter)
Other Authors: Baskerville, Peter (Contributor), Sager, Eric W. (Contributor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Toronto University of Toronto Press 2016, [2016]
Subjects:
Families > Canada > Statistics.
Families > Canada > History > 20th century.
Households > Canada > History > 20th century.
Families
Households
Canada
1900-1999
History
Statistics
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contributors
  • Introduction
  • PART ONE: FAMILY DEMOGRAPHY: CANADA, 1901
  • 1. Transitions in Household and Family Structure: Canada in 1901 and 1991
  • 2. Canadian Fertility in 1901: A Bird's-Eye View
  • 3. Family Geographies: A National Perspective
  • PART TWO: URBAN FAMILIES
  • 4. Family Geographies: An Urban Perspective
  • 5. Rural to Urban Migration: Finding Household Complexity in a New World Environment
  • 6. Family Geographies: Montreal, Canada's Metropolis
  • PART THREE: THE YOUNG AND THE OLD
  • 7. Families, Fostering, and Flying the Coop: Lessons in Liberal Cultural Formation, 1871-1901
  • 8. Canadian Children Who Lived with One Parent in 1901
  • 9. Boundaries of Age: Exploring the Patterns of Young-Old Age among Men, Canada and the United States, 1870-1901
  • PART FOUR: NEW INTERPRETATIONS: FAMILY AND SOCIAL HISTORY
  • 10. Inequality, Earnings, and the Canadian Working Class in 1901
  • 11. 'Leaving God Behind When They Crossed the Rocky Mountains': Exploring Unbelief in Turn-of-the-Century British Columbia
  • 12. Giving Birth: Families and the Medical Marketplace in Victoria, British Columbia, 1880-1901
  • PART FIVE: THE IMPORTANCE OF CULTURAL CONTEXT
  • 13. Language, Ancestry, and the Competing Constructions of Identity in Turn-of-the-Century Canada
  • 14. Constructing Normality and Confronting Deviance: Familial Ideologies, Household Structures, and Divorce in the 1901 Canadian Census
  • Index

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